VOIP NEWS

The Softie In Me Smiles

When I read blog posts from people saying things like this I just smile, knowing that my team and client over the past year have worked very hard to reach out to the general market, not the early adopter, to enjoy the power of real time video communications on a personal level.

We’re not talking out of sight priced Cisco or HP Telepresence here. We’re talking a free service that works with just about any webcam and personal
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Covad Inks Deal With United Online

Covad, which is rising like the Phoenix, has just announced a deal with “low price” leader United Online for a DSL play.

Given how tattered AOL is these days, United Online and Earthlink, both Covad customers are looking more and more like the emerging victors in the independent market for Internet customers.

United Online has one of the brightest marketing executives in North America, Mark Goldstone, at
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Is Om Throwing in The Cable Broadband Towel?

Om has been a staunch believer, like myself, that the cable modem folks have a better offer than the DSL guys. Now he may be changing his tune.

He’s not alone. After seeing ADSL in action recently in my hotels around Europe I’m more convinced it’s how the USA based telcos set things up than what it’s capable of.

My broadband experiences in Paris, Barcelona and Munich were insane. Mostly I was impressed
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SF WiFi Project

It appears the highly touted San Francisco WiFi project continues to hit speed bumps.

The fact that only 12 concerned citizens (if they were all citizens and not PR and Policy representatives) is a bigger source of concern. 12 in a city as digital as San Francisco…What are we talking here? HomelessWireless? Maybe GrandCentral can give away cheap WiFi phones like they give away free voice mail boxes for the homeless to have a phone number which a great humanitarian effort by clients Craig and Vincent.

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Yahoo Execs: It should have been the Spam Manifesto

One of the product lines under Peanut Butter Manifesto’s author Brad Garlinghouse is their email product line. If not, he’s a very lucky Sr. VP, as it leaves a lot to be desired.

As an experiment I let my Yahoo Mail email account alone for fifty days. End result was over 1600 emails, of which 85 to 90 percent of spam. When I compare this to both Google’s Gmail and Apple’s .Mac Mail only Microsoft’s HotMail has a weaker performance level at fighting spam.

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VoIP News on “What is Voice 2.0″

Check out the story in VoIP News which begs the question “what is Voice 2.0?”

First I have been using the following to define voice services as I give interviews:

Voice 1.0–> The phone service you get from your local phone company (i.e. PSTN) or mobile phone operator (i.e circuit switched cellular)

Voice 1.5–> This is what Earthlink, Vonage, Packet8, Broadvoice, VoicePulse, SunRocket and the service you
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Marc Orchant On My Subversive Post Check out ZD’s Marc Orchant post that is a very good roundup of what other thought leaders are thinking…

Most Read at ZD Net VoIP Blog—Is A post by Russell Shaw about Skype vs. Gizmo is number one.

Skype Subverts T-Mobile

Many a writer, analyst and blogger have put the label of “disruptive” on Skype.

I think NOT.

The proper term, as I have said before is “subversive” and what the following will prove and point to that exact claim. Now for those who don’t see the fine points of differentiation, disruptors upset the status quo. Michael Robertson at SipPhone, best known for MP3.com is an example of a premiere
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Skype For Business Profiled IDG has a profile on Skype and how they are going after the business market.